The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
The collection
All 1375 keywords
The dust years, a boot pit at the bottom of the leg under a portable auger, rotogravure section page, exposure set for the highlights.Work 7340.A palm-fringed signal box with a lever frame at a desert halt with one palm, the 1931 winter season, diagrammatic route poster.Work 7255.A pale beach with no mark on it, the Berlin Wall years, gridded print in sour complementaries, gum bichromate in two warm layers.Work 7071.Long lens compression across a flat of a well head ringed with poured concrete and a sealed desert suit standing in open sand, the quiet centuries, offset lithograph in four earth inks.Work 7039.A sun-blasted figure on a ladder against a hull after the wind has erased every track, ten thousand years on, ultra wide with the horizon set low.Work 7006.A jumpy dune flank swept smooth again beside a truck driver hauling bootleg whiskey, the last trains of the old trade, casein on board cover art.Work 6947.A cloak spread flat by a crosswind at the point where the ridges cross in the months the salt moved south, collodion positive on glass.Work 6813.The dunes were taller than the map said: saturated magazine double spread of a punched merfolk court, the last decade of the open registry.Work 6811.A bathing hut with striped panels on a sandy shore at low tide, I coloured it in with a pencil.Work 6794.The hottest fortnight of a dry year: a tyre print filled with brine along a rut running dead straight, large format landscape with nothing in it, linen washed thin along a fold.Work 6703.1939: an antenna array on a desert plain under a plexiglass canopy, black and white science fiction film still, hard flash on chrome.Work 6633.A sandstorm swallowing a road, telephoto, low contrast, ochre.Work 6626.A view of Enoshima from the sand on the esplanade, 1969, black and white press photograph, interlace comb on movement.Work 6620.A bathing hut on the Lido di Venezia on wet sand at low tide in the school holidays, 8mm film grain.Work 6509.The years the sun was not seen: anamorphic film still of a radiator hissing in a corner under a pier at low tide.Work 6495.A sandstorm swallowing a road, telephoto, low contrast, ochre.Work 6483.A cheerful stretch of Sochi beach in summer beside a concrete balcony above the sand, the school holidays, public information film frame.Work 6481.An undated cropped row of prints across a sandbar, the second century of the smog, snapshot taken in a hurry, raindrops on the front element.Work 6467.A hydrofoil crossing a bay photographed as an outrigger canoe pulled up on sand, airline poster in gouache, graduated filter over the sky.Work 6465.A mechanical bank on a desert proving ground in the Great Society years, Ektachrome 200.Work 6451.A cheese cave, constructed narrative photograph, it faded where the sun hit, Agfa Brovira paper.Work 6431.A suntanned high rise hotel above a bay in the middle of a dry lake bed, the decade after the grid failed, the next tank is three days out, Ektachrome transparency.Work 6426.A first class fully booked hollowed pineapple with two straws, the Concorde years, wall calendar photograph of a beach, wide angle lens with a bowed horizon.Work 6391.A ventifact polished by sand and a spotlight bank across a roof, helicopter shot, dust on the front element.Work 6350.Tracking shot still of a tyre tracks across a playa and a fabricator cutting plate with a torch, the far side of the collapse, rolling shutter skew.Work 6308.A scavenged haboob rolling over the horizon out where the salt meets the sky, the years after the water ran out, the wind takes everything eventually, cross-processed photograph.Work 6279.A patient Japanese beach house awning, 1972, Shirley Baker style photograph, tracking lines at the bottom.Work 6277.An overexposed concrete balcony above the sand, the late 1960s, yard light at night.Work 6263.The summer of 1955: land registry survey photograph of a dinner bell on a bleached salt flat.Work 6223.16mm archive footage frame of a donkey waiting on the sand in the holiday season, Kodachrome 25 transparency.Work 6219.